I wanted to replace the stock fans in my HP 2810-24g from the noisy stock ones from (Nidec?) to proper silent ones from Noctua, namely their amazing NF-A4x20 FLX running at DC12V @ 0.05A (0.6W) But my first attempt gave me a “FAULT” status and loads of errors in the event log. But I fixed…
The DayTek LCD TV from hell
This is the story about my worst experience yet with a TV. I’m not gonna lie, I’m a thrifter. If I see something for cheap where I’d normally spend more, I’ll get it for cheap. Was it because i grew up fixing and not just spending money making your problems go away? I don’t know….
Samsung Galaxy S5 and my issues with it
Hi all, I have acquired a Samsung Galaxy S5 recently and after getting it unlocked and cleaned up, I ran into a few issues while attempting to use a custom firmware (Cyanogenmod 13), namely: No way to access the legacy menu key WEBm files cause the mediaserver thumbnail service to fail Visualization in the music player is…
Dell Latitude CP-i A series & NeoMagic 2200 MIDI Woes
Hello lovelies! After finding a Dell Pentium II Laptop at a Talize store, I proceeded to order a power supply for it so I could start playing with it. First thing I did, was replace its internal hard drive with another one of mine, and completely wiping the one it came with ( I don’t…
Reviving the CF-41 (Part 1)
A good friend of mine gave me a 486 laptop to play around with. I’ve been hunting these bad boys down to make myself a half decent DOS game machine. I ended up with a CF-41 from Panasonic A.K.A. The ‘Toughbook’. Nice little machine, from what I can tell in Windows 95 (Came pre-installed) it…
[JS] Quick function to check if an object is empty
Checking for an empty object in Javascript is doable, but rather interesting. See, I’m used to EXT Js having everything built in, but that isn’t always the case. For example, we have Ext.isEmpty, but in version 5, it doesn’t know any better, it basically only checks for strings and numbers (Possibly NaNs and what have…
How to fix W3TC not re-minifying your CSS after a change (Only applicable if you use memcache!)
I’ve been minifying my blog and one thing i ran into was the fact that W3TC kept using the same minified CSS file (Even after installing YUI compressor, changing compressor, changing my style.css, etc..) Then it hit me, every single time I ‘clear my cache’ it didn’t clear anything. So the culprit is probably memcache. TL;dr…
And done!
Well, I just finished customizing my blog! (Done in WordCamp Toronto of all things!). I haven’t used WordPress in so long and man, things have changed. And it’s about time I do something about my lack of knowledge of it! So, I have sped up this website to a good load speed but could still…
Hello World
Typical first post, eh? This is my blog, where I shall write about do’s and don’ts I learn or know about, post little snippets of interesting code, or just puns in General! Stay tuned, more content coming!